It wasn’t long ago that info leaked of Sony’s involvement in the next iPhone camera. To be completely blunt, the Sony camera sensor speculation was based on an incorrect statement made by the company’s CEO. Embarrassing!
Currently a company named OmniVision supply Apple with the cameras for the iPhone range. The 5 megapixel camera currently sported by the iPhone 4 is regarded as being one of the best, if not the best in the business. Its image results are clear, have great definition and give a much truer representation of color than many others.
The latest rumor is that the iPhone 5 is now expected to have its camera supplied, again, by OmniVision. However, this time it’s jumping from an average 5 megapixel sensor to 12.6! Of course, megapixels don’t mean everything. The lens is the most important thing, and if the iPhone 5 adopts the lens currently built in to its predecessor, then it’ll be plain fantastic.
It gets better – if the iPh5 does get this OmniVision OV12825 sensor, then it will also be capable of shooting full HD (1080p) video at up to 60fps. Image quality will be unrivalled, as will video capture. It would surely put the iPhone back on the map when it comes to leading the pack, especially if it’s coupled with a 4″ Retina display.
Friday, April 15, 2011
Apple: White iPhone 4 is Real (and Late)
Ten months after the iPhone 4 was announced, Apple is still reassuring us that the white model is on its way-possibly. After Bloomberg reported the white iPhone 4 should be on sale by the end of the month, Apple apparently reassured The Wall Street Journal that it's coming this spring. But after ten months on sale, the iPhone 4 is reaching the end of the product cycle -- so is there any point in having a white one now?
We still don't know what's holding up the white iPhone 4. Rumor has it the delay is due to Apple having trouble manufacturing white iPhone that don't leak light from the edges of their glass cases. Others say it's because the white paint causes transparency on the back panel, resulting in washed-out photos when using the flash. Nevertheless, Apple is mum on what's causing the delay.
So where is the white iPhone 4 Steve Jobs held in his hand when introducing the new model last June? Well, Apple didn't tackle the delay graciously, either: initially the phone was expected in July 2010; then, in the second half of July, news broke that the white iPhone 4 was delayed again, with a release slated for later in the year; only to get delayed again until spring 2011. Apple even went through lengths to remove all traces and imagery of the white iPhone 4 from its website. Not classy.
If Apple keeps to the historical iPhone release schedule, a new iPhone 5 should be arriving in June (some say it's not happening until September, or even next year). So if the white iPhone 4 arrives at the end of this month, there will be just over a month between the release of the white, older model and the introduction of a brand-new iPhone. If this proves to be true, it makes more sense for Apple to release a new iPhone 5 in both black and white from launch day (like with the iPad 2) and send this whole white iPhone 4 fiasco to the annals of tech history.
We still don't know what's holding up the white iPhone 4. Rumor has it the delay is due to Apple having trouble manufacturing white iPhone that don't leak light from the edges of their glass cases. Others say it's because the white paint causes transparency on the back panel, resulting in washed-out photos when using the flash. Nevertheless, Apple is mum on what's causing the delay.
So where is the white iPhone 4 Steve Jobs held in his hand when introducing the new model last June? Well, Apple didn't tackle the delay graciously, either: initially the phone was expected in July 2010; then, in the second half of July, news broke that the white iPhone 4 was delayed again, with a release slated for later in the year; only to get delayed again until spring 2011. Apple even went through lengths to remove all traces and imagery of the white iPhone 4 from its website. Not classy.
If Apple keeps to the historical iPhone release schedule, a new iPhone 5 should be arriving in June (some say it's not happening until September, or even next year). So if the white iPhone 4 arrives at the end of this month, there will be just over a month between the release of the white, older model and the introduction of a brand-new iPhone. If this proves to be true, it makes more sense for Apple to release a new iPhone 5 in both black and white from launch day (like with the iPad 2) and send this whole white iPhone 4 fiasco to the annals of tech history.
NATO sea corridor mooted to help Libyan rebels
(Reuters) - NATO is considering creating a sea corridor backed by naval vessels to enable merchant ships to boost trade with Libyan rebels and speed up humanitarian aid.
Fighting between Libyan armed forces and rebels who are trying to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi, as well as sanctions against the Libyan leader's government, have brought seaborne trade to a virtual standstill in recent weeks.
NATO has been enforcing a U.N. arms embargo on Gaddafi in international waters only. Merchant ships face a risk of attack inside Libyan waters due to the violence.
Two shipping sources said on Friday they were aware of proposals to create a secure shipping lane to Libya, though security sources said NATO would not be able to protect ships in port.
"Contingency planning has been done on this at NATO and in the European Union," British Foreign Secretary William Hague told Reuters on Thursday when asked about the proposal.
Hague said a lot of aid had been delivered to the besieged Western city of Misrata without a military presence, which was "always the first option."
"It's only if that failed and the United Nations ... recommended that military assistance was required that then that would come into play," he said at a NATO conference in Berlin.
Aid groups have urged shipping companies to resume services to rebel-held eastern ports including Benghazi to bring in aid, and the anti-Gaddafi Libyan National Council (LNC) has said it must keep exporting oil to boost minimal cash reserves.
"The possibility of protecting merchant shipping traveling to and from ports under the control of the (LNC) is part of the broader strategy which the coalition has adopted to facilitate the 'normalization' of the status of rebels' interim authority on the world stage," said J. Peter Pham, Africa director with U.S. think tank the Atlantic Council.
"In theory, escorts or the designation of protected transit corridors ... should lower, if not eliminate altogether the need for war risk price differentials. This, in turn, should make it easier for the rebel authorities to transact business."
Jakob Larsen, maritime security officer with BIMCO, the world's largest private shipowners' association, said a merchant ship had been attacked by Libyan coast guard vessels last month.
"As a precautionary measure, close protection of shipping would be desirable," he said. "We are still waiting clearer directions as to which cargoes can legitimately be offloaded in Libya."
PORT RISKS
A NATO official said the organization had drafted notices to mariners giving clear indications on "how to behave in the maritime joint operations area."
"Our task is to enforce the arms embargo, not to protect commercial ships," the official said.
Fighting between Libyan armed forces and rebels who are trying to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi, as well as sanctions against the Libyan leader's government, have brought seaborne trade to a virtual standstill in recent weeks.
NATO has been enforcing a U.N. arms embargo on Gaddafi in international waters only. Merchant ships face a risk of attack inside Libyan waters due to the violence.
Two shipping sources said on Friday they were aware of proposals to create a secure shipping lane to Libya, though security sources said NATO would not be able to protect ships in port.
"Contingency planning has been done on this at NATO and in the European Union," British Foreign Secretary William Hague told Reuters on Thursday when asked about the proposal.
Hague said a lot of aid had been delivered to the besieged Western city of Misrata without a military presence, which was "always the first option."
"It's only if that failed and the United Nations ... recommended that military assistance was required that then that would come into play," he said at a NATO conference in Berlin.
Aid groups have urged shipping companies to resume services to rebel-held eastern ports including Benghazi to bring in aid, and the anti-Gaddafi Libyan National Council (LNC) has said it must keep exporting oil to boost minimal cash reserves.
"The possibility of protecting merchant shipping traveling to and from ports under the control of the (LNC) is part of the broader strategy which the coalition has adopted to facilitate the 'normalization' of the status of rebels' interim authority on the world stage," said J. Peter Pham, Africa director with U.S. think tank the Atlantic Council.
"In theory, escorts or the designation of protected transit corridors ... should lower, if not eliminate altogether the need for war risk price differentials. This, in turn, should make it easier for the rebel authorities to transact business."
Jakob Larsen, maritime security officer with BIMCO, the world's largest private shipowners' association, said a merchant ship had been attacked by Libyan coast guard vessels last month.
"As a precautionary measure, close protection of shipping would be desirable," he said. "We are still waiting clearer directions as to which cargoes can legitimately be offloaded in Libya."
PORT RISKS
A NATO official said the organization had drafted notices to mariners giving clear indications on "how to behave in the maritime joint operations area."
"Our task is to enforce the arms embargo, not to protect commercial ships," the official said.
Tornadoes overnight leave at least nine dead
(Reuters) - Violent storms ripped across Oklahoma and Arkansas overnight, killing nine people including three children, and cutting a path of destruction through Arkansas's largest city of Little Rock, authorities said on Friday.
Tornadoes killed two people in Oklahoma, both in the small southeastern town of Tushka where the only school was leveled, authorities said.
Seven people were killed in Arkansas as the storms hit early on Friday morning, authorities said. A six-year-old boy was killed in the town of Bald Knob. A father and an 18-month-old girl were dead in Garland County, one person was dead in Pulaski County, and one in St. Francis County, local police and Arkansas state police said.
The storm hit the city of Little Rock hard, killing a mother and her young son, whose age was unknown, according to the Little Rock Police Department. The storm also left numerous trees down and electricity out in large parts of the city.
More storms are expected on Friday to move through Mississippi and Alabama, along with a secondary storm corridor along the Mississippi River valley through eastern Missouri, northeastern Arkansas, Western Kentucky and southern and perhaps central Illinois, according to Corey Mead, forecaster for the National Storm Prediction Center.
Mead said the storms are expected to bring heavy rainfall with a potential for more tornadoes and large hail. The storms in the secondary corridor are expected to be confined to Friday afternoon and evening, while storms will likely continue overnight in the deep south, moving east across parts of Georgia and the Florida panhandle, Mead said.
Large hail, tornadoes and damaging winds are also possible in eastern Louisiana and the western Carolinas, according to weather.com.
(Reporting by Steve Olafson in Oklahoma City and Suzi Parker in Little Rock; Writing by Mary Wisniewski; Editing by Greg McCune)
Tornadoes killed two people in Oklahoma, both in the small southeastern town of Tushka where the only school was leveled, authorities said.
Seven people were killed in Arkansas as the storms hit early on Friday morning, authorities said. A six-year-old boy was killed in the town of Bald Knob. A father and an 18-month-old girl were dead in Garland County, one person was dead in Pulaski County, and one in St. Francis County, local police and Arkansas state police said.
The storm hit the city of Little Rock hard, killing a mother and her young son, whose age was unknown, according to the Little Rock Police Department. The storm also left numerous trees down and electricity out in large parts of the city.
More storms are expected on Friday to move through Mississippi and Alabama, along with a secondary storm corridor along the Mississippi River valley through eastern Missouri, northeastern Arkansas, Western Kentucky and southern and perhaps central Illinois, according to Corey Mead, forecaster for the National Storm Prediction Center.
Mead said the storms are expected to bring heavy rainfall with a potential for more tornadoes and large hail. The storms in the secondary corridor are expected to be confined to Friday afternoon and evening, while storms will likely continue overnight in the deep south, moving east across parts of Georgia and the Florida panhandle, Mead said.
Large hail, tornadoes and damaging winds are also possible in eastern Louisiana and the western Carolinas, according to weather.com.
(Reporting by Steve Olafson in Oklahoma City and Suzi Parker in Little Rock; Writing by Mary Wisniewski; Editing by Greg McCune)
Tornadoes overnight leave at least nine dead
(Reuters) - Violent storms ripped across Oklahoma and Arkansas overnight, killing nine people including three children, and cutting a path of destruction through Arkansas's largest city of Little Rock, authorities said on Friday.
Tornadoes killed two people in Oklahoma, both in the small southeastern town of Tushka where the only school was leveled, authorities said.
Seven people were killed in Arkansas as the storms hit early on Friday morning, authorities said. A six-year-old boy was killed in the town of Bald Knob. A father and an 18-month-old girl were dead in Garland County, one person was dead in Pulaski County, and one in St. Francis County, local police and Arkansas state police said.
The storm hit the city of Little Rock hard, killing a mother and her young son, whose age was unknown, according to the Little Rock Police Department. The storm also left numerous trees down and electricity out in large parts of the city.
More storms are expected on Friday to move through Mississippi and Alabama, along with a secondary storm corridor along the Mississippi River valley through eastern Missouri, northeastern Arkansas, Western Kentucky and southern and perhaps central Illinois, according to Corey Mead, forecaster for the National Storm Prediction Center.
Mead said the storms are expected to bring heavy rainfall with a potential for more tornadoes and large hail. The storms in the secondary corridor are expected to be confined to Friday afternoon and evening, while storms will likely continue overnight in the deep south, moving east across parts of Georgia and the Florida panhandle, Mead said.
Large hail, tornadoes and damaging winds are also possible in eastern Louisiana and the western Carolinas, according to weather.com.
(Reporting by Steve Olafson in Oklahoma City and Suzi Parker in Little Rock; Writing by Mary Wisniewski; Editing by Greg McCune)
Tornadoes killed two people in Oklahoma, both in the small southeastern town of Tushka where the only school was leveled, authorities said.
Seven people were killed in Arkansas as the storms hit early on Friday morning, authorities said. A six-year-old boy was killed in the town of Bald Knob. A father and an 18-month-old girl were dead in Garland County, one person was dead in Pulaski County, and one in St. Francis County, local police and Arkansas state police said.
The storm hit the city of Little Rock hard, killing a mother and her young son, whose age was unknown, according to the Little Rock Police Department. The storm also left numerous trees down and electricity out in large parts of the city.
More storms are expected on Friday to move through Mississippi and Alabama, along with a secondary storm corridor along the Mississippi River valley through eastern Missouri, northeastern Arkansas, Western Kentucky and southern and perhaps central Illinois, according to Corey Mead, forecaster for the National Storm Prediction Center.
Mead said the storms are expected to bring heavy rainfall with a potential for more tornadoes and large hail. The storms in the secondary corridor are expected to be confined to Friday afternoon and evening, while storms will likely continue overnight in the deep south, moving east across parts of Georgia and the Florida panhandle, Mead said.
Large hail, tornadoes and damaging winds are also possible in eastern Louisiana and the western Carolinas, according to weather.com.
(Reporting by Steve Olafson in Oklahoma City and Suzi Parker in Little Rock; Writing by Mary Wisniewski; Editing by Greg McCune)
Tornadoes overnight leave at least nine dead
(Reuters) - Violent storms ripped across Oklahoma and Arkansas overnight, killing nine people including three children, and cutting a path of destruction through Arkansas's largest city of Little Rock, authorities said on Friday.
Tornadoes killed two people in Oklahoma, both in the small southeastern town of Tushka where the only school was leveled, authorities said.
Seven people were killed in Arkansas as the storms hit early on Friday morning, authorities said. A six-year-old boy was killed in the town of Bald Knob. A father and an 18-month-old girl were dead in Garland County, one person was dead in Pulaski County, and one in St. Francis County, local police and Arkansas state police said.
The storm hit the city of Little Rock hard, killing a mother and her young son, whose age was unknown, according to the Little Rock Police Department. The storm also left numerous trees down and electricity out in large parts of the city.
More storms are expected on Friday to move through Mississippi and Alabama, along with a secondary storm corridor along the Mississippi River valley through eastern Missouri, northeastern Arkansas, Western Kentucky and southern and perhaps central Illinois, according to Corey Mead, forecaster for the National Storm Prediction Center.
Mead said the storms are expected to bring heavy rainfall with a potential for more tornadoes and large hail. The storms in the secondary corridor are expected to be confined to Friday afternoon and evening, while storms will likely continue overnight in the deep south, moving east across parts of Georgia and the Florida panhandle, Mead said.
Large hail, tornadoes and damaging winds are also possible in eastern Louisiana and the western Carolinas, according to weather.com.
(Reporting by Steve Olafson in Oklahoma City and Suzi Parker in Little Rock; Writing by Mary Wisniewski; Editing by Greg McCune)
Tornadoes killed two people in Oklahoma, both in the small southeastern town of Tushka where the only school was leveled, authorities said.
Seven people were killed in Arkansas as the storms hit early on Friday morning, authorities said. A six-year-old boy was killed in the town of Bald Knob. A father and an 18-month-old girl were dead in Garland County, one person was dead in Pulaski County, and one in St. Francis County, local police and Arkansas state police said.
The storm hit the city of Little Rock hard, killing a mother and her young son, whose age was unknown, according to the Little Rock Police Department. The storm also left numerous trees down and electricity out in large parts of the city.
More storms are expected on Friday to move through Mississippi and Alabama, along with a secondary storm corridor along the Mississippi River valley through eastern Missouri, northeastern Arkansas, Western Kentucky and southern and perhaps central Illinois, according to Corey Mead, forecaster for the National Storm Prediction Center.
Mead said the storms are expected to bring heavy rainfall with a potential for more tornadoes and large hail. The storms in the secondary corridor are expected to be confined to Friday afternoon and evening, while storms will likely continue overnight in the deep south, moving east across parts of Georgia and the Florida panhandle, Mead said.
Large hail, tornadoes and damaging winds are also possible in eastern Louisiana and the western Carolinas, according to weather.com.
(Reporting by Steve Olafson in Oklahoma City and Suzi Parker in Little Rock; Writing by Mary Wisniewski; Editing by Greg McCune)
Acer tablet PC-Iconia Tab A500 based on Android 3.0 OS to enter into India
Acer, the leading PC maker has come up with a new version of tablet PC-Iconia Tab A500. It will be released on 24th April in UK and soon later in India. This 10.1 touch screen tablet has already created a sensation in the market regarding its size and this tablet is fully equipped with the latest Google Android 3.0 ‘Honeycomb’ operating system. As informed by the retailer, A500 is powered by dual-core NVIDIA Tegra 250 processor and has 1GB of RAM.
With its wide display, Acer tablet is designed for rich multimedia entertainment and hence it comes with a high resolution, high colour contrast display with wide viewing angle providing higher colour accuracy for better visuals from different perspective, allowing users to play or share HD video with friends on the go. With its 10.1inch wide screen it is able to run and play premium HD arcade games and complex online 3D games with the help of multi-touch screen and gyro meter control.
With its wide view this tablet will give excellent results for photos and videos. With 5MP rear camera and 2MP front camera it will give great results for HD videos and photos. It supports Adobe Flash Player, output via an HDMI port, 1280x800 LED-backlit display, 2 USB connectors, and this new gadget will be a great competition in the market. The tab currently supports WiFi only which goes all the way up to 802.11n but Acer plans to unleash 4G version this summer.
The best buy offer of Acer tablet is price $450 which is $50 less than iPad 2. Its other models too like Acer Iconia W500, Tablet A100 which are said to be lower in prices that A500 are there which means the buyer will be getting the best deal in terms of features, quality and it will be pocket friendly as well. With the available range of tablets available in the market, this gadget seems to almost have it all with a price range good to start with but its 10.1inch screen will be a add on to it.
With its wide display, Acer tablet is designed for rich multimedia entertainment and hence it comes with a high resolution, high colour contrast display with wide viewing angle providing higher colour accuracy for better visuals from different perspective, allowing users to play or share HD video with friends on the go. With its 10.1inch wide screen it is able to run and play premium HD arcade games and complex online 3D games with the help of multi-touch screen and gyro meter control.
With its wide view this tablet will give excellent results for photos and videos. With 5MP rear camera and 2MP front camera it will give great results for HD videos and photos. It supports Adobe Flash Player, output via an HDMI port, 1280x800 LED-backlit display, 2 USB connectors, and this new gadget will be a great competition in the market. The tab currently supports WiFi only which goes all the way up to 802.11n but Acer plans to unleash 4G version this summer.
The best buy offer of Acer tablet is price $450 which is $50 less than iPad 2. Its other models too like Acer Iconia W500, Tablet A100 which are said to be lower in prices that A500 are there which means the buyer will be getting the best deal in terms of features, quality and it will be pocket friendly as well. With the available range of tablets available in the market, this gadget seems to almost have it all with a price range good to start with but its 10.1inch screen will be a add on to it.
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